Skill

/emilkowalski-motion

Motion-design follow-up skill inspired by Emil Kowalski's animation guidance. Use after an interface exists to add tasteful micro-interactions, state transitions, and page motion with product-grade restraint.

One skill from open-design.

shell

$ npx -y skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill emilkowalski-motion --agent claude-code

Installs just this skill. Get the whole plugin for auto-invocation.

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

Fires itselfClaude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
Slash command/emilkowalski-motion

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Motion-design follow-up skill inspired by Emil Kowalski's animation guidance. Use after an interface exists to add tasteful micro-interactions, state transitions, and page motion with product-grade restraint.

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LicenseApache-2.0

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SKILL.md

emilkowalski-motion.SKILL.md

---
name: emilkowalski-motion
description: |
  Motion-design follow-up skill inspired by Emil Kowalski's animation guidance. Use after an interface exists to add tasteful micro-interactions, state transitions, and page motion with product-grade restraint.
triggers:
  - "emil kowalski"
  - "motion polish"
  - "micro interaction"
  - "interaction animation"
  - "tasteful animation"
  - "动效润色"
od:
  mode: prototype
  surface: web
  platform: desktop
  category: animation-motion
  upstream: "https://emilkowal.ski/skill"
  preview:
    type: html
  design_system:
    requires: true
  craft:
    requires:
      - animation-discipline
      - accessibility-baseline
  example_prompt: |
    Use emilkowalski-motion on the current HTML artifact: add restrained micro-interactions, state transitions, and reduced-motion fallbacks without changing the core layout.
---

# Emil Kowalski Motion Follow-Up

Use this skill after a design artifact already exists. The goal is to make the interface feel alive without turning it into a motion demo.

## Workflow